Example sentences of "they can [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got tetanus , to stop you breaking your back with these muscle contractions , so that they can nurse you adequately , they inject you with this stuff and you are paralysed until the tetanus has been fought off . |
| 2 | He or she is trying to get a very clear picture of what you can do so that they can place you accurately and not send you on too many pointless interviews . |
| 3 | In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden . |
| 4 | They can give you more for a start . |
| 5 | These old Jews , they 've got such a feeling for kids , they can spot 'em almost before they 're conceived . |
| 6 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 7 | So even though we have a lot of tricky stuff to get right soundwise , the crew is so great that they can do it pretty much without us . |
| 8 | We have done so because we think they can do it better than anyone else . |
| 9 | Yeah they got , they can do it better now and |
| 10 | From Hungary , Russia and Japan come rumours that they can do it too . |
| 11 | Keep your notes legible Notes must be in a form in which they can serve you later . |
| 12 | There are some who never come to our House of Prayer for various reasons — prayer is not important in their lives , work or social life is more important , people who feel that they can go it alone with no need for God , others who feel that life is too full to have time for God , some who think that religion is a waste of time , and there are people , both young and old , who are intimidated by their friends . |
| 13 | In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily . |
| 14 | Well they 've got er links with six colleges so they can offer you more or less anything from management to catering to horticulture . |
| 15 | These wo n't damage you hair at all : in fact because they contain lots of conditioning agents they can make it much more shiny and manageable . |
| 16 | Today , many young people , with most of their voting years ahead of them , are more likely than before to feel that they can make it alone . |
| 17 | If the council thinks that you have given away or used up savings in order to qualify for , or increase the amount of your benefit they can treat you as still having those savings . |
| 18 | In this situation you will automatically revert to those fixed-wing reflexes which you spent so much time in developing and they can lead you sadly astray ! |
| 19 | Mind you when the warmer weather gets here they can wear them anyway |
| 20 | This assumes that governments are willing to make all their objectives explicit , that they can specify them precisely , and that they are stable over time . |
| 21 | And er you know , the different er things they can tell you just how l old a thing th And then I think they were the sort of the fashion Er you know they were first in the fashion trade to introduce these sort of things you know . |
| 22 | ‘ They can tell you more about that than I. ’ She took a deep breath . |
| 23 | The 1981 Transport Act now states that once the police have reasonable cause to believe that a driver has been drinking , they can follow him home and breath test him there if they wish . |
| 24 | They can teach me so much about the important things in life — I do n't have anything so important to teach them . ’ |
| 25 | Well , well see how it goes , but erm I do n't , the thing is you see they can teach you so much about laying different bonds and making patterns and doing portholes and things like that , that 'll be handy to know , but obviously you 're not gon na learn that until much later on |
| 26 | They are lulling me into believing that they suspect nothing , so that they can catch us together . |
| 27 | Singly , the leopard would defeat them , but together they can drive it away . |
| 28 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
| 29 | It is intended to familiarise pupils with academic language , so that they can read it comfortably . |
| 30 | People think they can spend them anywhere and they can not . ’ |